The Great Gatsby

Gatsby: pages 133-145

Gatsby is too noble for his own good.  This passage of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is the most shocking so far.  I can't believe Daisy killed Myrtle!  Gatsby is going to be blamed for it; his decision to take the blame of the manslaughter will come back to haunt him, I guarantee it.  Why wouldn't they have stopped?  It feels like all the characters are going crazy.  Gatsby knows that he hasn't always had ALL of Daisy's love, Tom knows Daisy wants to leave him, and Daisy is faced with the most difficult situation of her life!  At the end of this chapter, Carraway realizes something Gatsby will never grasp: Daisy is never going to leave Tom for him.  He left Gatsby "standing there in the moonlight---watching over nothing" (Fitzgerald, 145).  Daisy isn't going to fight for Gatsby like he has continuously fought for her.  He is delusional and she is selfish.

Random thought, but Daisy and Tom don't seem to be much good of parents.  Their daughter is mentioned maybe twice, and they are never home with her!